Episode Thirty: The Consort

In which the moon relays a message. Featuring: all things made manifest.

Episode description: Love is a leash that pulls both ways.

Episode Overview
Various consorts of various kings have their say.

Trigger Warnings

 * Abuse, manipulation, cults, homophobia, violence, bullying, arguing, screaming.

Episode Summary
Mabel explains to Anna how to beat The King (by challenging him through ritual) and they head back down to the Hill after Mabel convinces Vera to stick around. They promise the House they'll come back when they're done.

We cut to The Unknown Voices, one of them ( Jonathan) screaming at the others, shutting down the camera feed so they're alone and not being watched by the "Exclave." He tells the other two the story of how he was recruited into the cult-- he grew up rich, starting making trouble, and got sent to a boarding school called Green Pines. It was there that he met Aurora Silver, who told him she'd put him to good use. After being attacked by a bully-- Hunter-- who meant to kill him, Jonathan was saved by Aurora Silver, who killed Hunter and then made the circumstances of hiss death completely disappear. Jonathan shouts that there are no laws or rules that apply to her before the feed turns back on and he stops his story.

We bounce back to the girls, who are back under the hill, meeting a Court member named Spindrift who is being possessed by Luna Thorne. Mabel and Luna have a conversation in which Luna explains that the King is requesting an audience with the three of them. After Luna leaves, Anna and Mabel have an argument about Mabel considering herself more faerie than human. Anna finally explains what Vera had meant when she referred to her as a murderer; when she was in college, she snapped the connection she had with a girl who appeared to her in dreams/visions. This girl, of course, was Mabel. This was because she was terrified of her own strangness; Anna regrets it immensly and Mabel makes her promise to never separate the two of them again.

Meanwhile, Luna and Veratrine meet for the first time, and Veratrine says that the only thing she thinks will taste like liberty is Luna herself.

Mabel makes Anna promise that she'll never do anything like that again, even if something happens to her, and they both apologize. The episode ends with Mabel saying "Let's go gut a tyrant."



Continuity
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 * Aurora Silver is canonically a parallel of Anna and the King, so the fact that no rules apply to her is a cause for major concern, seeing as the only way Anna and Mabel managed to kill the King was through rules and ritual.
 * Anna snapping her connection with Mabel could symbolize a literal "snapping of the thread" because of her place in the Crete Hierarchy.

Trivia
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 * "The Consort" as a title can refer to three people involved in this episode: Luna, Mabel, and Jonathan.
 * This is Veratrine and Luna's first face-to-face conversation. Veratrine only uses nicknames for Luna, and Luna only uses Vera's full name. Because Luna was given her name unwillingly and Veratrine chose her own, there's interesting symbolism involved there.
 * Spindrift is an example of Luna being able to possess bodies, a power she apparently has just like the King.